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The Sun has a “White Xmas Exclusive”: Ding Dong Merrily We’re High: The Sun finds cocaine traces in iconic churches EXCLUSIVE: Signs of drug found at Canterbury headquarters and 11 out of 25 top institutions THE loos at some of Britain’s most iconic places of worship show signs of cocaine abuse, a Sun probe can reveal. […]

An amended front-page headline from The Times (image H/T @steveplrose): According to the text: Muslims are boycotting the country’s key anti-radicalisation programme, The Times can disclose, after it emerged that less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs were coming directly from the community or faith leaders. The revelation that there were fewer than 300 community tip-offs […]

A detail from Simon Walters at the Mail on Sunday: Tory MP Ben Howlett has spoken of his ‘mental health issues’ after a vicious feud with Mark Clarke. Traumatised Mr Howlett was referred to a psychotherapist by his GP when Clarke’s gang falsely branded him a ‘terrorist sympathiser’ in a four-year social media war against him. […]

From the Gospel According to Mark (KJV): And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, […]

From the Daily Mail: A charity which has helped two key witnesses in the VIP child sex abuse investigation has lost NHS funding amid concerns over its use of a controversial therapy which can generate false memories. The Lantern Project was stripped of financial support after fears were raised over its governance, counselling techniques and use […]

From News.au.com: Bulgaria-born Prophetess Baba Vanga, who died in 1996 aged 85, was known as “Nostradamus from the Balkans” thanks to a purported 85 per cent success rate and has long been revered in Russia and Europe as a kind of supernatural saint. …[Her] chilling prophecies warn of a 2016 invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists, a […]

From the BBC News: An MP accused of faking a death threat has defended modifying a message from a constituent. Conservative MP for Telford, Lucy Allan, posted an email ending with the words “unless you die” on Facebook. The email’s author denied writing the final line. Mrs Allan admitted adding it – but said it […]

Tommy Robinson, former leader of the EDL, has written a memoir, called Enemy of the State. According to the blurb: Former leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson descrives the uncomfortable truths about growing up in a town blighted by Islamic extremism and criminal gangs. When he led a street protest in support of British […]

From Hsiao-Hung Pai at Open Democracy: Tommy Robinson has just returned from a Pegida demo in the city of Dresden, eastern Germany. …”German Pegida activists are very mainstream, because the ideas against Islam and Islamic immigration are mainstream,” says Tommy Robinson. “The majority of people in Europe are concerned with that immigration.” “Tim Scott, who’ll be leading […]

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Note on Attacks

Anyone who comments on current affairs on-line risks being smeared by attack sites and/or abusive Tweets. This is particularly so if one chooses to challenge dishonesty or other kinds of reprehensible behaviour.

As a result of making a stand in a few particular instances, I have become the focus of a number of such attacks. Those who have targeted me include: a Nigerian evangelist who believes in "child witches"; former activists with the EDL; a man with a long history of bad debt and grandiosity; a sockpuppeting tabloid journalist; and a self-serving "celebrity" MP who deploys smears to discourage scrutiny.

The bad faith of such sites and Tweets ought to be self-evident. However, any readers interested in the true background can read this and this.